RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 14, 2019 at 8:29 am
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2019 at 8:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I’ll throw you a life raft......sort of. You’re wondering about goal oriented ethics. Goal oriented ethics can be realist or subjectivist.
That some x is bad is meaningful regardless of whether or not you or anyone else clothes it in goal oriented ethics. If no one did, it would still be bad.
They’re two separate statements, one of which is an evaluative premise, lol,
X -is- bad
And
It is my goal to do bad
Therefore I should do x.
If we alter the evaluative premise to its goal based antithesis, we will end up with the conclusion that we shouldn’t do d, but nothing about x’s “badness” has changed in that exchange.
That some x is bad is meaningful regardless of whether or not you or anyone else clothes it in goal oriented ethics. If no one did, it would still be bad.
They’re two separate statements, one of which is an evaluative premise, lol,
X -is- bad
And
It is my goal to do bad
Therefore I should do x.
If we alter the evaluative premise to its goal based antithesis, we will end up with the conclusion that we shouldn’t do d, but nothing about x’s “badness” has changed in that exchange.
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